Review
This is official description
ReadWrite Kanji teaches the complete 1945 Jouyou Kanji characters. The program features meanings, ON and KUN pronunciations in both the kana and romaji (English) scripts. Each kanji includes stroke order illustrations and animations.
The program features a Learning List which, at any one time, contains a small subset of the total 1945 kanji. Students begin by reviewing the kanji in the Learning List and then progress to a number of exercises. If all the exercises are completed correctly for a particular kanji, it then moves off the learning list and another yet unlearned kanji replaces it. If a mistake is made in any of the exercises, the kanji's scores are reset and all exercises must be repeated.
The program also includes almost 3000 examples that illustrate the use of each of the kanji.
Main Features :
- The official first 1900+ joyo kanji taught to Japanese children.
- Writing stroke order animations for all kanji.
- Over 3000 examples of the use of the kanji included.
- Learning-list testing.
- Flashcard review and exercises to aid memorization.
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 1.5
ReadWrite Kanji teaches us to write and read Kanji, the Chinese characters adopted by the Japanese people 15 centuries ago. With this program, we will be able to learn 1945 jouyou kanji. We can learn the kanji meaning, its display and radical, and how to write it in a visual way by selecting the animated stroke order option. We can also learn its ON pronunciation and its KUN pronunciation, and view a few examples of a kanji in combination with another one. There are many individual exercises to choose from, i.e., Kanji Meaning Multichoice, ON Pronunciation Multichoice, KUN Pronunciation Multichoice, Stroke Order Exercise, Kanji Grid Search Exercise and Kanji Radical Multichoice. We can edit the exercise options and select the numbers of the correct answer needed in order to graduate words. It is possible to review the completed kanji, do exercise to complete list, add more kanji to the list, remove them, search by meaning or pronunciation and more. The help guide shows how to install the Microsoft Japanese IME for Windows. There is an on-line blog with some useful tips. We can evaluate this program free of charge. |
